Rick Taylor wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 11:57 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > >>On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 10:40 -0500, Rick B wrote: >> >> >>> From what I've read XFS main strong point is *reading* data from the >>>disk faster than other FSs', especially as it pertains to large video >>>files. But when it comes to writing and deleting, its performance is >>>worse than other FSes. I've personally tried it and it didn't seem any >>>faster than ReiserFS. >> >>Actually, XFS is very fast at deleting very large files. I know, i do >>DVD authoring all the time, Ext3 is simply ludicrous when deleting a lot >>of very large project files, you have to wait and wait and wait... With >>XFS, even a 50GB project gets deleted instantaneously. FWIW I went ahead and formatted my data partition as XFS when I reinstalled. I passed the 'linux xfs' parameter to the FC2 installer held off on formatting the partition. As it turns out this doesn't cause xfsprgs to be installed automatically and I had to track it down and install by hand (the rpm is on disk 4). XFS does delete gigantic files instantly and otherwise has run well; so far so good. Barton
